Daring rescue of horse tethered in floodwaters
Chase Gage borrowed his stepdaughter's horse to rescue a tethered horse stranded at times up to its neck in Waioweka River floodwaters. Video / Radio 1XX Newsroom; Georgina Hudson.
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